5. 3. Statement: EU Transition

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:17 pm on 13 September 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 4:17, 13 September 2016

I think the Member has to accept her party did not win the election. They’ve already lost one Member in record time. Frankly, I’m not going to be lectured by a party not all of whose Members actually live in Wales—talk about commitment to our country. There are people who don’t live in our country, and yet still want, apparently, to have to be paid to do so. That’s just totally ridiculous.

From our perspective, we have to respect what the Welsh people said. We have to try to interpret, as best we can, what they said, because there’s no clarity, apart from the fact that they voted to leave the European Union. But, what they don’t want is to be in a position where they find themselves worse off economically. I know, as far as UKIP are concerned, the world’s a simple place where simple things can be done in a short space of time. That’s not the way that the world actually is. So, from our perspective, we want to respect the views of the people of Wales. For years, her party didn’t want this place to exist. Now, they’re here; okay, they accepted the reality of democracy. We’ve done the same and, as her party claims to have done, we’ll do the same.